PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures 2 – PlayStation 3

New and Distant Worlds – Journey to Outer Space and back through time to Prehistoric World while still battling Betrayus and his ghoulish army in Pacworld and Netherworld.

New Characters – Encounter new friends and enemies from Seasons 1 & 2 of the hit Animation Series.

New and Improved Power Ups – Enjoy enhanced power ups from the first game along with brand new power ups helping PAC become larger than life!

New Worlds. New Friends. New Power Ups. The gang is back! Following the colorful characters and world of the PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures animated series, PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures 2 will feature PAC-MAN, Spiral and Cylindria in an all-new storyline as they defend PacWorld from the ghoulish army of Lord Betrayus.

Fun-filled mini-games showcase all the interactivity features of PlayStation Vita system – including augmented reality shooting action with Deviant Busters, or tilt and lean your way through Gravity Daze with the six-axis motion feature

Work with the Little Deviants to boost your scores and move up the Liveboard.

Play alone or with up to 8 players via Pass Around multiplayer mode.

Easy to play mini-game action suitable for all ages comes to PlayStation Vita

Games included utilize all the innovative controls of PlayStation Vita including the front and rear touch pads, drag, tap, motion sensing functionality, and the rear camera

Work with the Little Deviants to boost your scores and move up the PSN leaderboards

Play alone or with up to eight players on a single console via Pass Around multiplayer mode

Enjoy a varied gameplay experience of over 30 games/levels

Join the Little Deviants in a series of madcap adventures that allow you to have fun discovering and experimenting with the functions of the PlayStation Vita system including rear touch, front touch, six-axis motion sensors, front and rear cameras and microphone

Little Deviants is an Arcade style mini-game collection focused on the Little Deviant characters ongoing attempts to escape from their robot enemies. The games in the collection are especially designed to focus players’ attention on mastery of the various controls and features of PlayStation Vita, including front and rear touch screen input, tap and drag input, and motion sensor and rear camera functionality. The game contains more than 30 mini-games/levels, an online leaderboard, and local eight player multiplayer support through a single handheld.

Arcade Style Mini-Game Fun for PlayStation Vita

In the game world of Little Deviants the spaceship of the fun-loving beings known as “Little Deviants” is shot down by their robot enemies, hurling the quirky, but lovable little creatures down to a new planet. Here it is up to the player to help the Little Deviants escape their robot pursuers through a large variety of mini-games especially designed for play on PlayStation Vita.

Arcade style mini-game fun for PlayStation Vita. View larger

The compilation contains more than thirty games/levels, with mini-games falling into recognizable Arcade style mini-game formats. Each category of these utilizes the innovative controls of PlayStation Vita in a different way. Examples of this include, the Roll Hole Control game, which uses the rear touch screen and the motion sensing gyroscope of the Vita to raise a portion of the game screen, moving Little Deviants in the play area away from robots and towards vortexes that lead to different levels. Other game type examples include: Botz Blast which is an Arcade style Shooter utilizing the Vita’s analog sticks to target and shoot attacking robots, and the House of Whacks, a carnival style Whack-a-Mole game utilizing touch screen tap input functionality. Success in games allows players to accumulate points allowing players to rise on the Little Deviants PlayStation Network leaderboards. The game also supports 8-player local multiplayer using a single console in Pass Around multiplayer mode.

Key Game Features

Mini-game Fun for PlayStation Vita – Easy to play mini-game action suitable for all ages comes to PlayStation Vita

Showcase of All the Interactive Features of the PlayStation Vita System – Games included utilize all the innovative controls of PlayStation Vita including the front and rear touch pads, drag, tap, motion sensing functionality, and the rear camera

Go for High Scores – Work with the Little Deviants to boost your scores and move up the PSN leaderboards

Multiplayer – Play alone or with up to eight players on a single console via Pass Around multiplayer mode

I have been playing this game for four days now and I am a bit surprised at the animosity towards Little Deviants. Sure, this game is not Uncharted but it isn’t trying to be. Little Deviants is a collection of mini-games designed to make the user accustomed to the various control options on the Vita. In that regard it is similar to Wii Sports or Minesweeper. Sure, the games are simple but that’s the point. These games are not much different than the games available for the iPhone or Android.

You get a variety of games that are bound by a loose and unimportant story of helping these manic little aliens. The types of games vary, there is a type of ‘whack-a-mole’ game that uses the front and rear touch controls. If you score high enough on these games then you unlock more games and gallery items. There is a shooting game that uses the Vita’s camera to create the illusion of aliens flying around your living room. There is a sky diving game that uses the Vita’s motion controls, a game that requires you to use the microphone and so on.

The downside is that once you have unlocked everything there is little replay value other than trying to beat your high scores. the thing is, would you want to try? The mini-games do get a bit repetitive. This title is not designed for long play sessions. If you are meeting a friend and get a message that they will be a few minutes late, this would be the game to play to kill time with.

I am giving Little Deviants a 3-Star rating because while the games are not bad, you can probably find similar games on your phone for less or even free so $30 is too steep of a price. If you can find this for around $10 or so then it might be worth picking up just for an occasional time-waster.

I got this game bundled with my purchase of my PlayStation Vita First Edition Bundle. I’d lump Little Deviants in the same genre as games like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, and Doodle Jump; they’re entertaining for a while, but you’ll get bored with them rather quickly. It’s the kind of game you play to kill a little time.

Little Deviants is a collection of 30 mini-games and it does a decent job of showing off what the Vita is capable of. Throughout your game play you’ll use almost all of the the Vita’s various input methods including the touch screen, the rear touch pad, motion controls, the rear camera, the shoulder buttons, and there was even a mini game that requires you to hum into the mic. However, it does not use the analog stick, the directional buttons or the action buttons.

Some of the mini-games are more fun than others and there is a good variety of them, but some of them are a bit repetitive and you’ll see various iterations of them with the only real difference being the scenery and the level of difficulty. There isn’t much of a story line to tie together the mini-games either.

The game play is fairly easy, children should be able to achieve at least bronze status in most of the mini-games to unlock the next mini-game level without getting too frustrated. I was able to achieve silver status in most of the levels easily, but it’ll probably be harder for a child. Gold status is a bit more of a challenge to achieve in all the levels, and I’d work towards that if I wasn’t already bored with the game. Someday when I’m looking to kill a little time I might pop Little Deviants back into my Vita and try to get gold status on all the levels.

If you’re someone that likes collecting trophies, Little Deviants offers 55 of them. You should be able to unlock quite a few of them playing through all the mini-games once. I played the game once through and then replayed a handful or so of the mini-games and I was able to unlock 47% of the trophies through my game play. If you like trophy collecting they should add some replay value to the game trying to unlock all the rest of them.

Overall I think the game is pretty decent and can be a fun way to kill some time. But if you’re interested in it I suggest waiting for a price drop of at least $10-$15 or picking up a use copy. I don’t feel that it’s worth the $29.99 price tag that its being sold for right now.